Vivo retains IPL title sponsorship for next five years

Major Chinese smartphone company Vivo has retained the title sponsorship for the Indian Premier League (IPL) with a whopping bid of Rs 2,199 crore; a massive increase of 554 percent compared to the last contract.

BCCI had initiated the tender process for the title sponsorship rights, for five seasons from 2018 - 2022.

Jose Mourinho's father dies
Vitoria Setubal, where Felix Mourinho played and later worked as coach and club director, said he died Sunday. As Goal reported, the Portugal worldwide former club Belenenses confirmed his death on their Twitter account.

Vivo had bought the title sponsorship right of the T20 League for a two-year period (2016 and 2017).According to PTI, this sponsorship had cost Vivo Rs 100 crore per year, which was an increase of Rs 20 crore from what Pepsi had to pay to BCCI for the sponsorship at the beginning of 2013.

VIVO bagged the rights for IPL 2018 to 2022 by making an increase of nearly 554% from their previous contract. The period for the sponsorship extends from August 2018 to July 2022, and will commence with the start of the IPL's eleventh edition next year.

Beverage giant PepsiCo won the next bid in 2012 and signed a five-year deal worth Rs. 396 crores.

Earlier this month, Vivo bagged a sponsorship deal with Federation Internationale de Football Association to become the official smartphone partner for all Federation Internationale de Football Association events including the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. The interested parties were asked to submit their bids by June 27 at 12 noon at a place, which will be specified in the document or at any other place as decided and initiated by the BCCI.

Oppo put in a record bid of Rs 1,079 crore for five years (2017-2021).

Nancy Pelosi Faces Heat From Democrats After Georgia Loss
House Democratic leaders are taking some comfort in coming in a close second for a seat that's always been firmly in GOP hands. Instead, he said Democrats need to focus on developing a message that wins over voters in Republican-leaning districts.

Recommended:

Well it didn't quite work out like that, did it? "And that politics that got out of the box isn't going back into the box". He told a headliner-sized crowd that millions of young people who voted for him would not be silenced or sidelined.

Mark Warner of Virginia, top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, said , "This administration never ceases to amaze me". The president's tweets on Thursday left open the possibility that the conversations may have been taped without his knowledge.

Am I cool yet? Gibb's performance came a year after making a guest appearance as part of Coldplay's 2016 headline set . Chic's Nile Rodgers said he had been in the United Kingdom for 10 days and that it had been "inspirational".